Dealing with Performance Anxiety: 5. Steps to Tackle the Problem

When we perform, we call on a different part of ourselves from when we practise or play for ourselves, this is because these are different activities.
In performance we need a feeling of abandon and spontaneity, of creaivity and going with the punches, whereas practising relies on thoughtful, analytic procedures where we constantly evaluate, repeat and refine until we are satisfied. In performance, we leave our inner critic in the green room and go into another state of mind once we are on the stage, one where we are not engaged in thinking, but rather in communicating the musical message as we see it to the listener.
We probably all know an excellent pianist who is not able to make the transition from the one state of mind to the other. While they may play wonderfully, they can’t seem to put themselves through what they perceive as the torment of public performance.
As part of this months #tutorvideoseries, Graham Fitch outlines some steps one can take to tackle the problem of performance anxiety:
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